{"id":127,"date":"2012-01-24T17:09:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microtron.kinlok.nu\/?p=127"},"modified":"2012-01-31T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T18:37:59","slug":"phidgets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/phidgets-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Phidgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phidgets.com\/products.php?category=0&#038;product_id=1018_2\" target=\"_blank\">Phidget Interface Kit 8\/8\/8<\/a> today.  I read the description and it appears that the rat&#8217;s nest of sensor cables, miscellaneous wires, and assorted home-brewed circuit boards that are currently on board my Microton Robot can all be replaced by one off-the-shelf, miniature-sized component board.  The field of robotics has apparently come a long way since the early &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>The Phidget 8\/8\/8 boasts 8 analog inputs, 8 digital inputs, and 8 digital outputs.  This will cover all of Microtron&#8217;s currently designed functionality, with plenty of room for expansion down the road.  Phidget also supplies the library as GPL&#8217;d source code, which I hope means that I&#8217;ll be able to develop on a GNU\/Linux system.<\/p>\n<p>Another plus:  I&#8217;ll be able to access the device via a single USB port.  After programming Microtron in 6502 machine code (w\/ 4K of RAM), I&#8217;m really looking forward to doing some higher-level, language based robot programming instead.<\/p>\n<p>The phidget libraries are written in C and I plan to write the first stages of Microtron&#8217;s new code in C as well.  Some of my AI theories are object-based, so I may play around with Objective-C once Microtron&#8217;s basic functionality is working.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered the Phidget Interface Kit 8\/8\/8 today. I read the description and it appears that the rat&#8217;s nest of sensor cables, miscellaneous wires, and assorted home-brewed circuit boards that are currently on board my Microton Robot can all be replaced by one off-the-shelf, miniature-sized component board. The field of robotics has apparently come a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logbook","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daughterofkrypton.com\/microtron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}